I decided to write a meta review of two articles by David Graeber, which complicated. This was about Flying Cars … and “Against Economics”, the latter requiring some reading, primarily about monetary theory. Here are my links and notes. … Continue reading “David Graeber and money”
Nearly a year later, the debate amongst Corbyn’s coalition truly starts, here are some links which I need to read in detail. It’s about time, … Continue reading “Why Labour lost,”
References! An interesting topic, they are required by employers and often used inside voluntary organisations. There is a duty to be true, accurate, fair & not misleading. Here are my notes, mainly on the case law. … Continue reading “Giving References”
As part of my English revolution reading, prompted by Arden’s Left Handed Liberty, I took a look at Magna Carta itself, what did it codify/concede? How relevant is it today? Here are my notes. … Continue reading “Magna Carta”
Various things have brought me to reconsider, alternatives to Bitcoin’s proof of work and this points me at rchain.coop, because I know it. They are implementing a proof of stake based blockchain with a co-op based governance structure. Here are my notes … Continue reading “rchain.coop”
This took a lot of time, I decided to see if I could minimise the occurrence of my BSOD “UNEXPECTED STORE EXCEPTION”. This involved reinstalling my anti-virus product, changing it’s passwords and then repairing my fingerprint reader driver as a result of a Code 19 error on my fingerprint reader. FFS! 😡 Here are my notes. Continue reading “Mucking around until it breaks”
What’s the difference between W10 Home & Pro? Here are my notes? Continue reading “W10. Home vs Pro?”
I am exploring text scrollbar. Here are my notes … Continue reading “Scroll bars in HTML Boxes”
Some notes on Python Pickle. See below/overleaf. Continue reading “Python/pickle”
I find it hard to believe, but I have not yet posted my soundtrack of the Internationale which I use as a ring tone to this wiki. Well, here it is!
For more see also ringtones and revolution, which talks about the film and Finland Station and explains the featured image.
I have been looking for a blog value calculator as a toy for this and the blog site. Here are my notes … Continue reading “Blog Value”
I came back to open source auction software again, it’s really important and seems to have been enclosed, particularly around SaaS services or by the Investment Banks and Financial Exchanges. Not aimed at the largest scale, but here are some notes … Continue reading “Auction & Markets, the software”
I am conducting a project about Monet’s Four Trees and came across a digital version of the painting at Wikipedia. What fascinated me is that they claim the digital image is public domain. Continue reading “Dead artists work & copyright”
The 4 trees is one of Claude Monet‘s famous paintings. I need to do a project on it but I also found some useful comments on copyright on the wikipedia page hosting the image.
I have a printed copy hanging on my wall. It seems much pinker than one above and when I was looking for a digital version the colours all seem different. I am curious if this is because he did a bunch or because digitising colour is very technology dependant. I was also unaware that Impressionism was named after this picture called Impression Sunrise. This too appears in many images on the internet, each with slightly differing colours.
This is now displayed at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, while Four Tress is in the Met in NYC.
A personal fascination became apparent when I discovered under US Law and the Berne treaties, a faithful photograph of two dimensional pictures do not create a new copyright and thus all the photos of Monet’s art are Public Domain since he died in 1926 and the copyright expired in 2006. …
I want to use my Nokia with IFTTT as I have selected an RSS/Android SMS service to forward my blog. It doesn’t work here are my notes. … Continue reading “RSS Forwarding using IFTTT & a Nokia 3.1”
